Industrie und Melodie is in all the sixth studio album by Cosmic Baby and his fifth under that pseudonym.

The album was recorded between 1997 and 1999, when it had the working title Rotes Quadrat auf Schwarzem Grund (Red Square on a Black Background).

The album differs from most of the other works by Cosmic Baby in that the music is more playful and experimental, in the lines of 1996's Fourteen Pieces (although Industrie und Melodie is more minimalistic in its arrangements and has an overall darker atmosphere).

In both the title track (which is obviously Kraftwerk-influenced, being similar in sounds and structure to Kraftwerk's song "Pocket Calculator" from the album Computer World) and the track "Maschinengeschichten II" a poem in German can be heard, spoken through a vocoder (rhythmic and spread over some passages in the former; it is brought more ominously in the latter).

This poem is found in the CD booklet and goes as follows: Free translation (from Cosmic Baby's official website): Some other phrases and words through vocoder are also heard throughout the album.